Community Poll: Help us with Chapter 3! Vote for your Top 3 Favourite NPCs!

Here is your chance to have input into the character development for Sim Settlements - Chapter 3! As we have over 70 recruitable settlers in the game, we want to expand the dialogue for these NPCs to make your settlements and HQs more immersive and entertaining! We also need to provide specific responses for all the systems we have implemented so far (HQ, Diseases) and also for the new features we will be adding to Chapter 3!

As developing characters requires allot of valuable resources including Voice Artists, Writers, Sound Engineers and others we are not able to cover all the NPCs and we need to work out which ones are the priority for you! Our focus for this project is to develop the supporting characters.

What do you need to do?

1. Vote in the Poll. You can vote for 3 NPCs max.

2. Once you have voted you can reply in the thread and let us know what you like about the characters that you voted for and what you would like to hear more of in terms of dialogue! (Please note that we are not looking to develop or extend the NPC quests, just add more flavour dialogue to the NPCs as they interact with the world. We would encourage you to add any comments or suggestions as to what you would like these characters to say within the game. As I will have to manually go through each entry here to collate the votes and input please refrain from commenting on other users suggestions in this forum.

I will then collate all the feedback and votes back to the writing team.

My vote: Dr Metzli Jones, Gremlin, Mister Handsy
I just think their personalities would provide for some good humour in terms of what they'd think about things - Dr Jones for the "i can only express things in terms of disgust and am only here because I got ordered to be", Gremlin for her chipper chaos, and Mr Handsy because I'd love to see what could be done with the replaced words gimmick in that context.

Would've voted for Audra but her+Anton/Knox and The Powells (plus Franklin) aren't on the list.

Carne asada no matter what is one of my favorites also the Ed dude from red rocket and sneak snake the fistie punchie eye licker one who shall not be named ( whoops ). Honestly they are all great but those 3 have decent quick and interesting things going on with them.

im cool with what ever though as I’ve said before I’m no story writer and you guys have been doing a great job keeping me entertained with an interesting story that meshes with the base game.

also your 333 port count is interesting involving chapter 3 maybe far harbor nukaworld commonwealth 3 in one chapter 3 sorry ignore this nonsense.

Carne, he now serves liquified Chems in his V88 Bar... and lives in constant fear to end on the Table because of his name.

Cleff, sob Backstory and owes me a Drink.

The one whose Name is punishable by eye licking, aka Sneake... he is just overpowered.. runs as Mayor for all Settlements i don't intend to Visit frequently and i never can wait to encouter him... i also like his line about e-lec-tricity? what the f*k kind of disease is that?

Well, this was a bit difficult, I haven't met all of them yet!
I settled on Carne, Rob and Bucky. Why three ghouls? I don't know. I just like them a lot.
Carne is the kind of guy I imagine talking about having a party at HQ, and maybe hang out at the medical wing and talk with Cassandra about remedies.
Rob was an easy pick for HQ, he could have some comments about surveillance, construction safety, how different the work environment is compared to pre-war, and maybe the Mysterious Stranger that keeps appearing in the basement.
And Bucky, like Rob, has good stats and I personally think he fits in HQ. Another cheerful guy who wants to keep the place safe and is happy that more people have easy access to medicine, not just Diamond City. And maybe, he could wonder if they could one day do research on ghouls so he'd know what symptoms to be ready for.
Looking forward to hear all the new voice lines!

Sneak is hilarious, every time I say to him that I'm immortal I can't hold a chuckle!

Archibald reminds me of my mother, who is currently losing her memory.

Carne Assada I just love the fact that you named a ghoul "Roasted meat"... and I love a good barbecue!


Now go ahead and kill them all like in GoT xD

Frank la Dank and Ron and Greg from ch 1s Franktown vs Rontown

My picks are Cleff, Gremlin and Odette.

I loved Cleff’s backstory, and I was glad to give him closure. Also he seems pretty chill like he knows you’re doing all you can for other settlements. One of the few I recommended picking for HQ.

Gremlin. I LOVE her name! Her personality is a whacky, fast talking Gun Nut on a Mentats rush with a lot of optimism. I bet she could make better weapons than Tinker Tom but that’s just me.

And where do I begin with Odette? Skilled cultivator, but also her personal mission is so sad. I wanna make one of the settlements just be an orphanage and have her lead it because life stole the chance of being a mother and I think she would be a good grandma.

All are good, and I'd pick at least 10 to 15 favorites, but I guess top 3 are
Odette (well this one doesn't need explaining, she must be protected at all costs)
Isaiah (he's an asshat but also a hilarious character, pls give him mayor traits)
Sneake (main reason I take the castle, other reasons being Nadine and Emily and maybe to build a caretaker's tower and "generals" sculpture in there. Also he still doesn't fight back!)
also a few others

but I feel like the ones who need more lines are everyone else

pounding fists on table BRING. BACK. WISE. MY. HOT. BOY.

How much time do we have to cast our votes? I still have to meet most of them

Character: Gremlin

Liked about character: I liked her enthusiasm and her self-awareness that she is hyperactive and a fast talker.

Dialogue recommendation: Some funny future dialogue could focus on her musing about her recent experiment on how something went tragically (in a funny way) wrong.

Example: "Ooh, my invention of the 'Nuclear Powered Brahmin Milking Aspirator" is a big hit. Too bad about the first few failed attempts. But at least we have lots of fresh meat now."

Rocola said:

How much time do we have to cast our votes? I still have to meet most of them

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We may end up doing another one of these polls in the future (removing the three previous winners). We're not sure how deep we're going to go yet on this particular project, so I think this first round is @Sirlach feeling out the waters of how much effort it will take to get each settler expanded!

We'd love to do them all, but it may not be feasible, so figure best to focus on the fan favorites first.

If your going to continuing fleshing out the settlers maybe have carne asada be able to work with the doctor faction group added in chapter 2 like he could help them with research or something or perhaps he could setup shop in concord offering his services to the new commonwealth settlers moving in there.

and give them some idle dialog and maybe quest smart comments like if your doing a quest to find Kellogg they could have comments based on the current quest that going on. Or if you want to get crazy inigo Lucien and serana dialog addon have locational awareness to go along with quest awareness so they can see a place and say hey that (blank) looks pretty sweat or look how cool that thing is.

that may be a little much though honestly just adding more story into some of them would be cool to.

Emily Marcus: I mean she is a minuteman, who doesn't like minutemen? She had a relatively good backstory, plus she look fine.
Frenchy Jr.: I loved his quest is just to record a holotape, that was a fun little quest. He looks like he still living his way in post-apocalyptic and I put him as the mayor of Outpost Zimonja pretending he is in charge of a radio station for his musical taste.
Odette: Her story was very fallout 4 by my standards and was not repetitive as many other NPCs.

XxA1xX said:

Carne asada no matter what is one of my favorites also the Ed dude from red rocket and sneak snake the fistie punchie eye licker one who shall not be named ( whoops ). Honestly they are all great but those 3 have decent quick and interesting things going on with them.

im cool with what ever though as I’ve said before I’m no story writer and you guys have been doing a great job keeping me entertained with an interesting story that meshes with the base game.

also your 333 port count is interesting involving chapter 3 maybe far harbor nukaworld commonwealth 3 in one chapter 3 sorry ignore this nonsense.

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Yea he was cool and matches what a 200 year old ghoul professional killer should be

kinggath said:

We may end up doing another one of these polls in the future (removing the three previous winners). We're not sure how deep we're going to go yet on this particular project, so I think this first round is @Sirlach feeling out the waters of how much effort it will take to get each settler expanded!

We'd love to do them all, but it may not be feasible, so figure best to focus on the fan favorites first.

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I am loving all this feedback and it is fuelling the teams creative batteries!

So hard to pick three, so I picked three that I enjoy hearing when I return to their settlements.
Frenchie Jr. – Mellow, friendly, and just pleasant to hear at the settlement.
Silas Canary – Friendly, hardworking gentleman who just wants to settle down and farm.
Sneake – So that he can continue to put my settlements and the settlers in their place.
More flavour dialogue by any of the settlers would be quite welcome. Thank you!

XxA1xX said:

If your going to continuing fleshing out the settlers maybe have carne asada be able to work with the doctor faction group added in chapter 2 like he could help them with research or something or perhaps he could setup shop

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I put him on the butcher plot. Carne Asada's Prime Meats. We give good head cheese

To be honest many are very forgettable? as they just require you to do one task and might never need to see them again
I only remember ones I first met and the ones have multiple quests, or the quest was very unique.
At my late game, I would just pay Ron 500 caps in a way just to "fill" the rest of the settlers and rush with their quests.